J.S.D. (Yale), Dr. iur. (Hamb), LL.M. (Yale), MA (Cantab), Director of Studies, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, former Sir Arthur Watts Fellow, BIICL, Senior Fellow, CIGI.

Prof Gehring also serves as a Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable Development Law with the Centre. He is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Law at Hughes Hall. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL).

Before joining Cambridge Law, he was a Lecturer in International and European Law at the Centre of International Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS) and Fellow in Law at Cambridge University (Robinson College). He has been a visiting professor in several universities around the globe and was associated as professor with the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. He holds an MA from Cambridge, an LL.M from Yale, a Dr jur from Hamburg and a J.S.D from Yale. He is a member of the Frankfurt Bar, a member of the Ontario Bar, and a former associate member of the Brussels Bar. He represented the CISDL at several World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences over the last 15 years; as well as at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development and various other international negotiations. He is a member of the International Law Association, German Branch, and serves on the ILA Committee on International Law on Natural Resources. He served on the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law and on their Scholarship Committee. He is a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission and has conducted several high profile research projects.

Prior to joining academia, Prof Gehring practiced European Competition and International Trade law at Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He was Tutor in Public International Law at the Oxford University Faculty of Law (University and other Colleges) and a legal researcher with Prof Vaughan Lowe (All Souls College). He also taught German Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany, and was legal fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, where he edited the BRIDGES Journal legal column. Prof Gehring has published widely on sustainable development law. He is the author/editor of several books including with Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) and with J Hepburn and Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger World Trade Law in Practice (Globe Publishing, 2007). His other legal research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law